From: "allen dick" <[log in to unmask]>
>It seems many, if not most beekeepers, including many on this list, lack a
basic
> understanding of normal and obvious bee behaviours.

OK, I will be a bit more pendantic in future!

Just a thought that I had today whilst searching for the queen in a mildly
defensive colony in a rather cool breeze - if you open and move an AHB
colony,  would they not 'fly freely' whatever the weather?

Peter Edwards
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www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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